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March 19, 2010
Critical article on statistical methods
This article takes a fairly critical view of how statistics is commonly practiced:
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/57091/title/Odds_Are,_Its_Wrong
A good chunk of what he says is unfair or misleading. But its worth knowing about this since this viewpoint surfaces from time to time. The stuff about multiple testing is fair and on-target. It's worth a read, and some of the comments are interesting as well.
Posted by kshedden at March 19, 2010 04:13 PM